11. PRAYER:  "A VOICE FORETOLD"

Power in: Light, music, prophecy and oracles, poetry, medicine, plague, protection of youth 

Symbols: Bow and arrow, lyre

Sacred plants: Laurel, cypress 

Sacred animals: Swan, raven, wolf

Referred to as: The interpreter; the oracular one; Apollo of the wolves; the shining one; the healer; he-who-shoots-from-afar

In Theban Trilogy: 

Apollo is the Lord of the Oracle of Delphi, where his shrine is located. Lauis received from him that his future son would kill his father and wed his mother. Oedipus learned the same prophecy from his visit. Years later, Lauis went to Delphi again to consult Apollo on the solution to the Sphinx. He indeed got killed by Oedipus on his way. In the course of OEDIPUS REX, Oedipus again sent Creon to ask Apollo for the solution to the plague, and his birth and fate unravelled from then on.  

Apollo is also the patron of Tieresias, a blind Theban seer in REX and ANTIGONE (Tieresais himself is the son of the nymph Chariclo, one of Athena's favourites).